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1,505,458 H. c. WITT BOX Filed April 125.. 1925 2 sheets-sheet 1 Aug. 19 1924.v

H. C. WlTT BOX Filed April 25. 1925 2 Sheets-Shet 2 lu J Patented Aug. 19, 1924.

HARRY o. WITT, or STONEHAM, ivre'ssaoirosntrrs.

Application filed April 25,1923 Serial 1%. 634,455) 7 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY C. WITT, of.

Stoneham, in the county of .Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the 5 United States, have invented, a new and useful Improvement in Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this spec 10 ification in explaining its nature. a

The invention relates to an improved type of box and essentially a'display' box.

The object of the invention is to make a box out of heavy stock such as cardboard or fibreboard; the parts of the box to be struck from a blank and assembled without the auxiliary means of fastening or joining" together customarily employed and in a manner to give strength and serviceability to the box coupled with an attractive form.

The invention can best be seen and understood by reference to the drawings in which Figure 1 is a perspective of the box. Fig. 2 is asection on the line 22 of Fig. 4,

Fig. 3 is a vertical median section of the box from front to back, and

Fig. 4 is a section on the line i -4 of Fig. 2.

1 represents the body of the'box and2 the cover.

The body of the box comprises a bottom 3, back 4, front 5 and sides 6, 6. The' back, front and sides are integral with thebottom and turn upwardly therefrom along lines or edges attained by scoring, a fiat blank, all the parts being cut from the blank by a single operation. The back 4 is preferably turned to lie vertical while the front 5 is preferably turned to lie away from the vertical and inclined slightly toward the back.

The sides 6, 6 are turned to lie between the front and back which overlap thej'respective ends 7 of the sides and are fastened thereto. The fastening is effected by a tenon 8 on each end 7 ofthe sides which pass through mortises 9 cut in the adjacent front or back. These tenons fit within the respective mortises with rather a snug fit which is ample to hold the assembled parts together although the application of some adhesive such as shellac is preferably made to each tenon at the time the joint is made.

The body of the box may be provided with having any one or more partitions 10 and these partitions arefastened to one another or to thesides, front or other part of the box as desired by simply forming tenons 8on the end of each partition and passingthe same through cent part.

The cover 2 of the box may consist of a mortise 9 cut in the adja simply a flat plate out from a blank although preferably in the form of a frame surrounding an opening adapted to receive any suit-, able transparei'icyfnot shown). The covei is arranged to overlap the top edges to the.

front and sides of the body of the box and is hinged to the body of the box in the fol lowing manner Projecting from each side of the box at a point inwardly removed from theback thereof isa strap 11 which turns backwardly onan arc. The ends of these straps are passed through mortises 12 cut in an upward extension 4. to the back 4 of the'box body. The straps 10 form hinges on which the cover turns, the cover being applied to these straps by passing the straps through slots or mortises 18 formed in the cover beforethe-ends of the straps are fastened,

to the back extension 4. The hinge-form-' ing straps l1 areintegral with the sides of the box, beingcut from the blank with the sides and other parts forming the bodyof the box. I

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim 1 and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States l. A box having a'body and cover, the body of the box having sides with hinge forming straps upturned therefrom and the cover havingslots through which the straps are passed whereby J the cover is hinged to the body of the box.

2. A box having a body andcover, the back ofthe box having an extension, the sides of the box being provided with hinge-forming straps upturnedtherefrom and connected to said back extension and the cover having slots therein'through which the straps are passed whereby the cover is hinged to the back of the box having an extension with mortises cut therein, the sides of the box' therefrom and extended through said 1nor-, tises 1n the bElOkBXtQIlSlOIl and the cover hingeforming straps upturned having slots through which the straps are the box having an extension with inortises 10 assed whereby the cover is hinged tothe cut therein, the sides or" the box having body of the boX. 1 hinge-forming straps upwardly projecting 4. A box having an integral body struck therefrom and extended-through said inor- 5 from a scored blank and comprising a bottises in the back extension and the cover torn with back, front and sides upturned having slots through which the straps are 15 from said bottom, theback and front being passedwhereby the cover is hinged to the connected to the respective sides by tenon body of the box. and mortise joints, the back of the body of I HARRY C. WITT. 

